Wives and Lovers

Question: What is the current situation between Jioni, Erebus, and Nyx?

There is no situation, actually. Jioni and Nyx have never met one another, and it's extremely likely that Nyx isn't even aware that Jioni exists.

Some time ago, near the end of their Demigod career, Geoff's band visited Erebus and were told by him that Nyx had gone rogue. He claimed that she had reacted badly to his decision to side with the gods and was attempting to defect to become an Avatar of Comprenion in order to consider opposing them; when the band went out into Erebus to find her, they discovered her opening a massive portal into what did indeed appear to be the Titanrealm of Fate. On Erebus' orders (with the sanction of the Dodekatheon to obey him), the band attacked Nyx and managed to overcome her through a combination of the element of surprise, Geoff's overwhelming and mind-confusing appearance, Goze's massively epic Mighty Curse shutting off some of her powers and Sangria's and Marcus' bone-pounding brawn. After knocking Nyx out and binding her with relic bindings, the band turned her over to Erebus, who informed them gravely that due to her uncontrollable insistence on fighting the gods, he would be personally consigning her to Tartarus. No one saw her again.

Fast forward about a year, and Erebus, brooding and on the rebound, happened to notice Jioni while she was Psychopomp-blasting through Antarctica on her way to go pick up the rest of her band and deliver them to their next mission. He was smitten, stalked her for a little while, and eventually proposed to her, which came as something of a shock to her since she had never met him before he turned up with a darkness ring. But he was persuasive and she decided to give him a shot, and the rest is history (or mythology, eh?).

Nyx was long gone before Jioni came on the scene, so the two have never crossed paths and know pretty much nothing about one another (although I'm sure Jioni and her piles of Academics and Occult knows that she had a predecessor, if not what happened to her). It's unlikely that Nyx will ever come into contact with Jioni unless she somehow escapes her prison, but if her fearsome reputation is anything to go by, she'd probably have a predictably nasty Greek temper about it if she did. Some of Nyx's many Titanic children, including Hypnos, Thanatos and Charon, have met Jioni but seem cool at best toward their much younger stepmother.

Alas, the course of true love never did run smooth.

Prince and Princess of Darkness

Question: So how is the marriage between Erebus and Jioni going, nowadays? Can we maybe get any snippets?

Since it went so well when we had Sowiljr's player come in last time to answer questions about his marriage to Eztli, we figured we'd continue the trend by asking Jioni's player to guest-blog us an answer to this question about the bonds of holy matrimony between New Orleans' most eligible former bachelorette and the king of primordial darkness. Hit it!

Jioni and Erebus have a pretty great relationship based on mutual support, affection, and lots of banging.

Vivian fell into the traditional wife role relatively easily, which was sort of surprising even to me. Part of this may be due to the perks and security that come from being the queen of a titanrealm. She's got quite the likable personality, so Erebus often gives her her own way. His subjects help her out when she asks. People call her "Your Highness" and "Queen of Darkness" and other appropriate honorifics, and she really enjoys that, though she's still not used to throwing her queenly weight around outside of Keku (except for that one time that accidentally led to the onset of Ragnarök...)

She is honest with those close to her - sometimes brutally so - and she makes no apologies, but as a wife to a Greek titan she has learned that sometimes it's best to play dumb or be optimistic in the face of doom for the good of her husband. She's no wet noodle, but she cares enough about Erebus to put his feelings before her own when he needs a "yes, dear."

The success of their relationship is important to Vivian on a political level as well as a personal one. There are a lot of problems within the Loa right now, and she certainly hasn't made any friends since Ragnarök. She's rightfully worried about her place within her own pantheon, but as Erebus' wife, she has a backup. She's doing her best to work herself into Hera's good graces (does Hera even have those?) and to make friends within the Dodekatheon. Erebus is currently trying to do the same with Zeus in an attempt to become a legit god, so it's a journey they are taking together, in a way. It's slow going at the moment, since her band always seems to NEED her, but it's coming along.

I feel I should also mention that their relationship is still quite physical, and that Vivian has been pregnant for a very long time. I am sort of scared to see what kind of wretched titanspawn she will come to bear, but I'm sure horrifically creepy darkness babies won't be enough to shake the strong foundations of Jioni and Erebus' marriage.

There you go. Marriages to other Scions, gods or mortals are fraught with emotional peril, but apparently tying the knot with a Titan is a one-way ticket to bliss.